... By Katherme Morrison HAVE you ever gazed long ingly at the painted furniture displayed so temptingly in shop windows ? And turned away with reluctance because of the prob able price? Yet it is quite possible for you to own pieces of great charm and distinc tion, if only you are willing to take the time and the trouble. How will you set about it Don't be too ambitious at first. Don't attempt ...

... FRIENDS OF THE HOUSEWIFE. Fireproof Glass and China Conserve Both Food and FueL By ANNE VERITY. SENECA of old came to the conclusion that man does not die; he kills himself, and it is one that will be arrived at also in these days when some reck less methods of cooking and serving food are under consideration. Autumn has dealt so pleasantly with us this year that it is difficult to believe ...

... The Bruce Channel Cup By the Hon. Victor and Mrs. Bruce. THOUGH one might think that the out board season is drawing to a close, I have learned with interest that the clubs are considering the possibility of con tinuing to hold their meetings throughout the year. For those who do not mind the risk of a rather colder bath than usual, it is pleasing to know that they will be able to continue to ...

... W. W. Wa kefield's Impressions of German Rugby I MET W. W. Wakefield on Tuesday within an hour or two of his return from Germany, where a London team (which included seven internationals) played Hanover on Sunday afternoon. Hanover, incidentally, was to all intents and purposes Germany. Wakefield (looking very fit) was delighted with the reception the team received. They were treated with ...

... k m^jSmLdM' J fjX&wMMtiim By WILLIS J. ABBOT This is the sixth of BRITANNIA'S exclusive cables dealing with the Presidential Campaign in the United States, by Willis J. Abbot, recognised as one of the premier political writers of America to-day. THE Presidential campaign enters upon its last week with little change in the outlook. All the indications point to the election of Hoover. Wall ...

... How I Found Jackie Coogan By Charlie Chaplin (In an interview) ONE evening in 1918 I happened to drop in at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Annette Kellerman-- the famous Australian swimmer and trick diver-- was closing her West Coast tour in a spectacular act, and, to celebrate the ending of a long engage ment, she brought on to the stage a four-year- old boy, the son of her manager, who ...

... The Problem f Imperial Migration By Commissioner D. C. LAMB Director of Salvation Army Migration and Settlement TVork. LAUGHTER greeted General Smuts when he made reference, in a recent speech he delivered near Bloemfontem, to a peti tion dated 1750, in which the whites in South Africa, who then numbered about 5,000, were asking the East India Company not to send out more people as the country ...

... My Life By Benito Mussolini THE year 1921 was Danté's centenary. I was dreaming, in the name of Alighieri of the Italy of to-morrow, both free and rich, with seas peopled with her fleets, with the earth everywhere made fruitful by her ploughs. Later on, in a meeting of Lombardian Fas cists, I indicated some landmarks of the Fascist battle. In a speech made to friends in Milan, I affirmed ...

... By Marion Cran, Marion Cran's weekly gardening article appears exclusively in Britannia.) OF all parts of the garden none is so intimate or so beloved as the rock- garden. I think it is because the flowers are most of them small and dainty, with quaint eager ways of running to meet us among the stones; and some are tiny stalwart uprights, who stare us out with childish bravado, miniatures of ...

... i vP3t*' By Winifred Lewis COLOUR can help to make you com fortable this winter. An illusion of warmth in the house is as important as a good fire. One new colour introduced into an existing scheme may change it from cool freshness to warm vitality. Colours are really worth under standing. The ideal scheme is the H one which is most easily interchangeable. It is in teresting, adaptable and ...

... F urnishing in Colour How the home can he brightened with colour in a practical manner MOST women will tell you that they would like more colour in the home. But colour isn't always practical. Delicate hangings, soft toned carpets, bright chair cover ings, are lovely and enviable, but they soil. Colour becomes an expensive luxury when it results in big clean ing bills and nobody wants the ...

... Ideas for Your Windows Curtain treatments and curtain materials discussed IF your house is old, even if it is just out of date, console yourself. You've got old windows. That seems a strange thing to console yourself with, but old windows are lovely. They give importance to the rooms, and they admit that without which the best furnishing schemes are incomplete light and sunshine. They may be ...